What a gorgeous day! The afternoon sun made every insect flitting about my garden so eye-catching that I just had to grab the camera.

Pretty dragonfly

Geese stopping over

The weather was so gorgeous that we went for a little ride around the Lake Erie Metro Park, camera in hand, of course. The Picnic area is right on a bay that invites migrating and non-migrating birds to stop over. Last year I only had my purse camera when I discovered the gathering of birds. The next day when I returned with my DSLR camera all of the birds had left. This year I had the DSLR with me and got these photos.

Coming in from all over on their way South

Seagulls, ducks, swans and geese all in one shot! This is a small sample of the hundreds of birds in this bay.

Plenty of action

While I was there quite a few swans and geese came in and joined the crowd. Above is a small flock of swans that flew in from Canada in the background.

Landing!!!

A few minutes later a couple of small flocks of geese came from the same area, flying across from Canada.

Canada, US...they see no boundries

Swans and the Ontario Wind Farm

I liked the swans peacefully swimming (here in the US) with the Canadian Wind Farm in the background.

Geese, ducks, swans, gulls and the Edison Power Plant

Here on the US side is a collection of waterbirds in front of our power plant.